Courtney Cox: Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964
into an affluent Southern family. Her father Richard L Cox (1930-2001) was a
business man married to her mother Courteney. She was the baby of the family
with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother Richard Jnr.
She was raised in an exclusive society town, Mountain Brook, Alabama. Courteney
was the archetypal Daddy's girl, and therefore was understandably devastated
when, in 1974 her parents divorced, and her father moved to Florida.

She became a rebellious teen, and did not make things easy for her mother, and
new step-father, New York businessman Hunter Copeland. Now, she is great friends
with both. She attended Mountain Brook High School, where she was a cheerleader,
tennis player and swimmer. In her final year, she received her first taste of
modeling. She appeared in an advert for the store, Parisians. Upon graduation,
she left Alabama to study architecture and interior design at Mount Vernon
College. After one year she dropped out to a pursue a modeling career in New
York, after being signed by the prestigious Ford Modelling Agency. She appeared
on the covers of teen magazines such as Tiger Beat and Little Miss, plus
numerous romance novels. She then moved on to commercials for Maybeline, Noxema,
New York Telephone Company and Tampax.

While modeling, she attended acting classes, as her real dream and ambition was
to be an actress. In 1984, she landed herself a small part in one episode of "As
the World Turns" (1956) as a young débutante named Bunny. Her first big break,
however, was being cast by Brian De Palma in the infamous Bruce Springsteen
video "Dancing in The Dark". In 1985, she moved to LA to star alongside Dean
Paul Martin in "Misfits of Science" (1985). It was a flop, but a few years
later, she was chosen out of thousands of hopefuls to play Michael J. Fox's
girlfriend, psychology major Lauren Miller in "Family Ties" (1982).

In 1989, "Family Ties" (1982) ended, and Cox went through a lean spell in her
career, featuring in unmemorable movies such as Mr. Destiny (1990) with Michael
Caine. Fortunes changed dramatically for Cox, when in 1994, she starred
alongside Jim Carrey in the unexpected hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994),
and a year later she was cast as Monica Geller on the hugely successful sitcom
"Friends" (1994). It was this part that turned her into an international
superstar and led to an American Comedy Award nomination. In 1996 Cox starred in
Wes Craven's horror/comedy Scream (1996/I) . This movie grossed over $100
million at the box office, and won Cox rave reviews for her standout performance
as the wickedly bitchy and smug TV reporter Gale Weathers. She went on to play
this character twice more, as Scream became The Scream Trilogy. Not only did her
involvement in this movie lead to critical acclaim, but it also led to her
meeting actor husband David Arquette. He played her on screen love interest
Dewey, and life imitated art as the two fell in love for real. Their wedding
took place in San Francisco, at the historic Grace Cathedral atop Nob Hill, on
June 12th, 1999. Joined by 200 guests, including Cox's film star friends Liam
Neeson and Kevin Spacey, the happy couple finally became Mr and Mrs Arquette.

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